Essays about: "Cosmopolitan divide"

Found 4 essays containing the words Cosmopolitan divide.

  1. 1. Communication without borders : A quantitative study on how mobility and a cosmopolitan self-identity affect Swedish expatriates communication patterns with friends.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Sol Agin; [2016]
    Keywords : Cosmopolitanism; polymedia; human connectivity; digital divide; migration.; Kosmopolitanism; polymedia; demografisk kontakt; digital klyfta; migration.;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to find out how Swedish voluntary migrants communicate with friends in three different groups: friends that resides in the same country as the respondent currently lives in, friends in Sweden, friends in other countries around the globe and whether or not individual mobility, demographic factors or a sense of global citizenship affect the chosen mean of communication. The reason behind the study is to introduce a previously unstudied area into the field of geographically based media studies and hopefully contribute to a deeper understanding of the role played by different means of communication in shaping the dynamics of global friendship. READ MORE

  3. 2. A home for the excluded? A study about identity and belonging in Kibera slum

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Tilda Kristersson; [2013]
    Keywords : Kenya; exclusion; slum; others; cosmopolitan neighbourliness; belonging; identity; HIV; Kibera; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : With increasing migration to urban areas, Kenya is a country in change with new and challenging problems. Nairobi has a high population growth but a far from equal socio-economic development. As Nairobi continues to grow, so do the slum areas within the city and the slum Kibera has grown to be one of the largest in Africa. READ MORE

  4. 3. Cosmopolitan Divide? : Examining the Tension Field Between Media, Residential Patterns and Cosmopolitan Attitudes

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Avdelningen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Johan Lindell; [2009]
    Keywords : Cosmopolitanism; Cosmopolitan divide; Cosmopolitan outlook; Banal cosmopolitanism; Cosmopolitan attitude; SOM; Riks-SOM 2008; Globalization; Internet; Rural; Urban; Media; Morality; Global Media; Network Society;

    Abstract :   Today, global media such as the Internet provides media audiences scattered across the globe with the possibility of cross-cultural moral interaction upon a plethora of global digital public spheres. Such trends have been the catalyst for increased academic attention to the field of media and morality and the notion of media audiences as global citizens – ‘cosmopolitans at home’, consuming a wide array of mediated, global images and thus enforcing a proximity with the ‘distant Other’. READ MORE

  5. 4. What Cosmopolitanism? Exploring Cosmopolitanism in Political Philosphy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anna Ek; [2007]
    Keywords : Cosmopolitanism; Political Philosophy; Justice; Political Community; the State.; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : During the last decade or so, there has been an uprising for cosmopolitan perspectives in political science. Cosmopolitanism seems to be the new modern approach to global problems. But various conceptions of cosmopolitanism are being used in the debate. READ MORE